Are you a prog type?

When reading all this threads I wonder who are the people behind that masks of names. When I started to get into prog in the early 70-ies I was one of perhaps two classmates who liked this kind of music. I was also a bit shy, had no girls around me. Was that the reason I fell in love with prog? All my friends who had girls and were not shy didn't like prog. I found myself sometimes sitting in the cellar in the dark on a seat just listening to prog (GENESIS, GENTLE GIANT etc) instead lurking around with my friends. - So the question is: are you this type? The typical prog type?

Did you change till now?

Yes, it's sad but true. I was like that at school too. I've changed a little since those days but my taste in music is still the same.

No not really, I was a metalhead during schooltime, always had friends around. Was a bit agressive those days, better now. I listened to Genesis and GG, but metal more.

I guess I am the prog anti-type.

I have settled down now but in my youth I was a loud,abrasive,rowdy hell-raiser,was always quick to fight,and was never shy around girls.A voracious reader and also a big jock in school,played football,lacrosse and baseball.But never hung out with the jocks because even though I was good in sports I had long hair,and smoked weed like crazy.

No one could figure me out because I was a big metalhead but also listened to tons of prog,which I have been into since about the age of 11.

I was a total study in opposites.




Edited by TheProgtologist - May 03 2006 at 10:55

Well, it's true that I don't have a girlfriend, but...

Nope. I got a lot of friends (of different nationalities), I play in a soccer team for an in-school tournament, I listen to some other stuff (Classical, Metal, Hard Rock, Classic Rock). I don't really ever go out though but I've been asked to come with people several times and though I'd loved to go, either I couldn't, they suddenly couldn't, or I just didn't manage to pick up the phone.

Anyway, I guess that since I've discovered prog, my "social status" has gone upwards instead of downwards.

I seem to be fitting the mold, apparently, although more along the lines of  The Progtologist and Blacksword. I was a pop-monger until puberty. Once puberty hit, I discovered metal. Parallel to metal, I also discovered Rush, Genesis, and Yes. I was definitely an extrovert, and seemed to get along with a wide range of different "cliques", although I was technically a "Chorus Geek" (sang in some form of ensemble or other all through high school). I played a lot of baseball growing up, but now I'm not as athletic as I was (I need to get back in shape!) Now I'm married, with no kids... yet.

Once I had my first "experience" (as Mr. Hendrix put it), and discovered Pink Floyd, my musical horizons really exploded, and I've been discovering and enjoying bizarre and weird music ever since (in not only prog, but pretty much any genre, short of country or hip-hop).




Edited by Empathy - May 03 2006 at 15:17

sleeper wrote: I dont know, do all progers hate most of the modern world?

Yes, most aspects of it, apart from the Internet which is the perfect medium to share our disgust!


     

i'm a funny person

uh...

I'm normal, drink and used to be on drugs, listened to prog, rock, Hardcore, Jazz, Metal...name it, you got it and that since i'm 8. Always had girlfriends.

Maybe that's because I'm a musician, but I maybe your just missing a point or two in life to not being able to simply have girlfriend...I mean, how tough is that?

Inferno wrote: uh... I'm normal, drink and used to be on drugs, listened to prog, rock, Hardcore, Jazz, Metal...name it, you got it and that since i'm 8. Always had girlfriends. Maybe that's because I'm a musician, but I maybe your just missing a point or two in life to not being able to simply have girlfriend...I mean, how tough is that?

Pretty tough. The ratio of men to women in my town is about 5 - 2, allegedly, and the women are more masculine than the men!